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Asked: 2026-05-17T14:46:30+00:00

I am trying to create CDATA section within the description field, but failing. The

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I am trying to create CDATA section within the description field, but failing. The code is pretty simple, but in the resulting XML a CDATA section does not appear!!

Node de = document.createElement("description");
de.appendChild(document.createCDATASection(reportData.getIssue().getDescription() + "more]]>data"));
e.appendChild(de);

In the result XML, I’m getting:

<description>Room #1128 has AD issues.more]]&gt;data</description>

What am I doing wrong?!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The sequence ]]> terminates a CDATA section and thus cannot appear within a CDATA section.

    Your XML library is recovering by ditching the CDATA section and using entities for characters that would have special meaning.

    Since <foo><![CDATA[Hello, world>]]></foo> and <foo>Hello, world&gt;</foo> are equivalent, this isn’t a problem (unless someone tries to parse the resulting XML with a tool that isn’t an XML parser, which way lies madness).

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